Re: Selenites (was Re: equinox)

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Nik Taylor wrote:

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>> 23-hour cycle, which seems to agree with most humans' circadian cycle
>> or biological clock).
>
>Actually, a 25-hour cycle would be closer.  Deprived of any indication
>of time, most people revert to a 25-hour wake-sleep cycle, and most
>people can adjust to about three hours on either side of this, so
>anywhere between 22 and 28 hours.
Either our sources are different, or I remembered a wrong number.
Anyway, maybe people could *vote* for the day length. Twould be a =
terrible electoral fight -- imagine if you could decide to extend your =
sleeping hours by voting on the base of the time-measuring system! The =
Lazy Sleepers and the Tightly Scheduled vs. ... Well, actually, who'd be =
against?

I remember reading about the protests in England when they adjusted the =
calendar from Julian to Gregorian, and people went out to the strees to =
claim that they'd been robbed ten days out of their lives.


--Pablo Flores
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